Review of The Video Dead

"The Video Dead" fits perfectly into the typically 80's movie category 'group of bored and over-enthusiast drinking buddies decide to make their own horror movie without a budget'. This category homes a handful of genuine cult-classics, like "The Dead Next Door", "Bad Taste" and even "The Evil Dead", but unfortunately this project ended up being a painful misfire. That is to say, only according to me and my mate who watched it with me it's a misfire, because apparently this film incomprehensibly sports a loyal fan-base and even most of the user comments around here on the website are generally positive and praising. Personally, I don't understand how people could even be mildly generous with their comments in this case. Granted, the make-up effects on the zombies as well as the bloody splatter effects are juicy enough, but seriously the screenplay is beyond retarded and every single individual in this production is insupportable to the nth degree. The gags, silly situations and wannabe giddy dialogs aren't funny at all, just very vexatious and pathetic. A seemingly ordinary TV-set functions as a gateway for decomposing zombies to step out of their lousy B-movie and into the small town home of the newly moved in Blair siblings. The cheerful zombies promptly start to devour half of the street and make the nearby little forest as their home. Along with a neighborhood girl looking exactly like Paris Hilton (irritating and clothed little inclusive) and a stereotypical Texan amateur private zombie hunter, the Blair siblings have no choice but to put up a fight against the living dead. "The Video Dead" tries to provide the concept of zombie-movies with a couple of new twists, rules and characteristics, but it's all pure nonsense and actually too moronic for words. For example: zombies can't stand to look into mirrors as they don't like to be confronted with the fact they're dead. Or worse, any weapon can be used to kill a zombie as it suffices to make them think they are dying. And did you know that can't harm you if you don't show fear? What a cargo of guff! They're zombies! All they should care about is eating brains, damned. "The Video Dead" is an overall worthless amateur production, with an unexpectedly large amount of boring sequences and a literally countless amounts of "what-the-hell" moments. Nobody involved in this production, whether in front or behind the camera, knows anything about the art of film-making and, thankfully, none of them ever tried to accomplish anything similar again.